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The sentencing of three former Decatur County Sheriff’s deputies found guilty after a federal jury trial has been postponed. The sentencing was scheduled for Tuesday, December 29 at 10 a.m. However, on Saturday, U.S. District Court Judge Louis W. Sands made an order continuing the case, essentially postponing the hearing until a date to be named later. This… Read More »

Sentencing for the three former Decatur County Sheriff’s deputies convicted this past summer in federal court is scheduled for December 29. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 29 at the federal courthouse in Albany, Ga. Originally, the sentencing hearing was scheduled for December 10. However, the attorney for Chris Kines–Kermit Dorough–filed a… Read More »

A convicted Cairo, Ga., drug dealer and a Miami, Florida, co-defendant with Thomas and Grady County connections were sentenced Thursday to years behind federal prison bars. Roger Ross, 50, of Miami, and Odell Cleveland, 47, of Cairo, Ga., were recently sentenced in Albany U.S. District Court by Judge W. Louis Sands. Ross was sentenced to 360 months in… Read More »

Samuel Lightsey and Frank Kilgore, the two PCA managers at Blakely, GA, who made plea deals with the government to become prosecution witnesses at trial in exchange for reduced prison time, learned their sentences on Thursday morning. According to WALB, Samuel Lightsey will serve a sentence of 36 months, or three years, in prison and will have an… Read More »

VALDOSTA – On Monday, Valdosta Police Department narcotics detectives received information that a large amount of marijuana was being delivered to a residence in the city limits. An investigation was initiated and two packages of marijuana with an approximate weight of 6.4 pounds and 3.5 pounds were delivered to a person in the 2400 block of Muscogee Drive,… Read More »